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Pablo Picasso Surviving Picasso, c.1996




A silhouette of a profile of a man painted on a beige background

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Surviving Picasso stars Anthony Hopkins as the painter Pablo Picasso. It was shot in Paris and southern France. The film starts with a young woman named Francoise meeting Picasso in Paris during the Nazi occupation of the city, where Picasso is complaining that people broke into his house and stole his linen, rather than his paintings. It shows Francoise being beaten by her father after telling him she wants to be a painter, rather than a lawyer. Picasso is shown as often not caring about other people's feelings, firing his driver after a long period of service, and as a womanizer, saying that he can sleep with whomever he wants. Because the producers were unable to get permission (as usual) to show the works of Picasso in the film, the film is more about Picasso's personal life rather than his works, and where it does show paintings, they are not of his more famous works. When Picasso is shown painting 'Guernica', the camera sits high above the painting, with the work only slightly visible.
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